Dislocating the color line : identity, hybridity, and singularity in African-American narrative /

Dislocating the color line : identity, hybridity, and singularity in African-American narrative / Samira Kawash.

This book provides a historical context for the recent resurgence of racial division by tracing the path of the color line as it appears in the narrative writings of African-Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In readings of slave narratives, "passing novels," and the writ...

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Main Author: Kawash, Samira, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [1997]
Series:Mestizo spaces.
Subjects:
Chesnutt, Charles W. > (Charles Waddell), > 1858-1932 > Criticism and interpretation.
Hurston, Zora Neale > Criticism and interpretation.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
Racially mixed people in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Individuality in literature.
Slavery in literature.
African Americans > Color.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Race in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Conditions: hybridity and the color line
  • 2. Freedom and fugitivity: the subject of slave narrative
  • 3. A question of justice: Chesnutt's twins across the color line
  • 4. The epistemology of race: knowledge, visibility, and passing
  • 5. Community and contagion: Zora Neale Hurston's risky practice
  • 6. Speculations: hybridity and singularity.

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